Devil's Dictionary

An Irreverent Word Book of Cynical and Sardonic Wit

By: Ambrose Bierce

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Paperback | 1 June 1996

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These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco.

First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge.

There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago - with or without the devil's help - can still draw blood today.

Some Examples:

Fable A brief lie intended to illustrate some important truth.
Impatience A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
Culprit The other fellow.
Monday In Christian counties, the day after the baseball game.
Sanity A state of mind which immediately precedes and follows murder.

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